1. a prove it..
b. who cares? you and your experts were cheering and predicting the covid apocalypse.
As demonstrated in previous articles on the subject of retailers in Texas requiring masks.
It should also be noted that the COVID cases in Texas are falling in urban and suburban counties that generally have dense population, democratic, and use masks -- this is driving the case decline in Texas. The COVID cases in Texas are rising in rural GOP counties which tend to not use masks.